Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Marcia Spence on Cemetery Road in Brigus. It was believed to have been built in the mid 1800’s by Sandy Roberts, and was used for vegetable storage up to the 1960’s. Today it is collapsed inside due to excavating that was...

Root Cellar owned by Marcia Spence on Cemetery Road in Brigus. It was believed to have been built in the mid 1800’s by Sandy Roberts, and was used for vegetable storage up to the 1960’s. Today it is collapsed inside due to excavating that was...

Root Cellar owned by Marcia Spence on Cemetery Road in Brigus. It was believed to have been built in the mid 1800’s by Sandy Roberts, and was used for vegetable storage up to the 1960’s. Today it is collapsed inside due to excavating that was...

Root Cellar owned by Marcia Spence on Cemetery Road in Brigus. It was believed to have been built in the mid 1800’s by Sandy Roberts, and was used for vegetable storage up to the 1960’s. Today it is collapsed inside due to excavating that was...

Root Cellar owned by Marcia Spence on Cemetery Road in Brigus. It was believed to have been built in the mid 1800’s by Sandy Roberts, and was used for vegetable storage up to the 1960’s. Today it is collapsed inside due to excavating that was...

Root Cellar owned by Marcia Spence on Cemetery Road in Brigus. It was believed to have been built in the mid 1800’s by Sandy Roberts, and was used for vegetable storage up to the 1960’s. Today it is collapsed inside due to excavating that was...

Root Cellar owned by Marcia Spence on Cemetery Road in Brigus. It was believed to have been built in the mid 1800’s by Sandy Roberts, and was used for vegetable storage up to the 1960’s. Today it is collapsed inside due to excavating that was...

Root Cellar owned by Marcia Spence on Cemetery Road in Brigus. It was believed to have been built in the mid 1800’s by Sandy Roberts, and was used for vegetable storage up to the 1960’s. Today it is collapsed inside due to excavating that was...

The inside of the grotto is 24.5" across, and 70" tall. The decorative cobblestone sides to the grotto are 43" (left) and 41" (right). The spring water comes from a small piped hole in the center of the grotto.

Peter has installed a sub pump directly inside the well to keep it working year round. In order to keep the pump from freezing the well is lined with styrafoam, and wooden planks are used to keep the sub pump level.

This well serves the home of Peter Laracy, and is housed inside of a wellhouse that also serves as a storage area. The original hole for the well was dug in 1918, and the water was piped into the house beginning in 1965. Peter constructed the pump...